Today I experienced a “white screen of death” when I forgot to put the URL of our Firebase instance in config/environment.js.

I’m not sure if the Firebase adapter (emberfire) could have handled this more gracefully, but I wanted to ask about good ways to handle an unresponsive/broken backend. At the very least, how to make sure that the templates render with no data.

I’m still new to Ember and don’t fully understand all of its intricacies yet so I’d be interested to hear others’ solutions.